Religious Experiences
An Introduction to Religious Experiences;
- what are they?
- key terms
- Created by: Megan Rose McHugh
- Created on: 10-04-13 12:31
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- Religious Experiences
- KEY WORDS
- Numinous: world that is beyond the physical observable universe
- Wholly other: outside human knowledge/ understanding
- Mysterium tremendum et fascinans: fearful yet fascinating mystery which evokes awe + wonder
- Transient: not a permanent experience
- Noetic: gaining knowledge
- Ineffable: unexplainable
- direct experiences: person encounters god directly
- indirect: experiences which make individual focus on god
- Numinous: world that is beyond the physical observable universe
- WHAT IS IT?
- supernatural event: no scientific explanation
- described as ineffable: unique/beyond human understanding
- SWINBURNE: extraordinary experiences that appear to violate normal understanding of nature
- RUDOLF OTTO: describes them as numinous/ wholly other. described as mysterium tremendum et fascinans
- Modern society: experiences regarded as delusions- cannot be measured objectively
- BUT difficult to ignore the impacts of experiences
- cannot be proved (scientifically) but change individuals and those around them
- George Fox: had a religious experience- led him to found the Quakers
- Act 9: Paul meets the risen Jesus- famous persecutor of Christians becomes a followe
- KEY WORDS
- KEY WORDS
- Numinous: world that is beyond the physical observable universe
- Wholly other: outside human knowledge/ understanding
- Mysterium tremendum et fascinans: fearful yet fascinating mystery which evokes awe + wonder
- Transient: not a permanent experience
- Noetic: gaining knowledge
- Ineffable: unexplainable
- direct experiences: person encounters god directly
- indirect: experiences which make individual focus on god
- Numinous: world that is beyond the physical observable universe
- Modern society: experiences regarded as delusions- cannot be measured objectively
- Act 9: Paul meets the risen Jesus- famous persecutor of Christians becomes a followe
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